Capturing immigrants’ arrival in a new land

A STUNNING exhibition of haunting century-old images of American immigrants opened in Cork last night.

Capturing immigrants’ arrival in a new land
Wed, 24 Jan, 2007 - 00:00
Eoin English

The collection was taken by Augustus Frederick Sherman, a registry clerk at New York’s Ellis Island from 1905 to 1920.

This untrained yet highly-gifted photographer created hundreds of images documenting the new arrivals to America.

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